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Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor Editorial Review: While supervising a small group of interns at a major New York medical center, Dr. Robert Marion asked three of them to keep a careful diary over the course of a year. Andy, Mark, and Amy vividly describe their real-life lessons in treating very sick children; confronting child abuse and the awful human impact of the AIDS epidemic; skirting the indifference of the hospital bureaucracy; and overcoming their own fears, insecurities, and constant fatigue. Their stories are harrowing and often funny; their personal triumph is unforgettable.This updated edition of The Intern Blues includes a new preface from the author discussing the status of medical training in America today and a new afterword updating the reader on the lives of the three young interns who first shared their stories with readers more than a decade ago.
Customer Reviews: Exactly as I expected It's a great book with a personal touch. It really let's you know what its like being an intern.
Chewed up and spit out Although this book is slow at times, I love the ingenious way it was produced: the transcripted recordings of three pediatric interns. For this reason, the book is exceptionally interesting since you get information unadulterated and in real time. The book takes place before the work hours restrictions but the daily life-decisions, complicated patients, the stress of uncertainty, and the endless work remain true. I'm glad there now are restrictions, however loosely complied with. This book gives me a new respect for the training my mentoring physicians went through.
Although some would say the authors did a lot of whining, I do not for a second believe it was unfounded. From what I've heard from friends and family in residency, I know the grueling training (physically, mentally, and emotionally) has changed little. I just hope I will be able to be stronger through those days ahead.
The best part of this book, in my opinion, is the afterward. It's and update on the three interns many years later. Being towards the end of medical school and still having residency looming ahead while many of my friends in other professions have settled into family life, I, like many of my peers question, "will all of this be worth it?" Dr. Marion gives us much needed insight through the afterward.
This book is a type of `pre-grieving'. I know intern year and residency can be hard but this book allows me to prepare mentally. I do hope though, with the new regulations on internship, that I won't be chewed up and spit out like these interns.
mm, Who are the real authors here? I am a little confused about this book. The book that I have was probably an old version, because the book cover is entirely different from the one here on amazon. And it claims that it is "a true story", but really this book has so many stories.
It is supposed to be stories of three young interns, but the author is Robert Marion. According to the book, those stories were first recorded on tapes by those three interns, then the author just typed them into words. Anyone can do that. I doubt that Rober Marion, MD actually took his time listened to all the tapes, and typed them all by himself. He probably hired someone who did it, then took the credit for himself.
Further, his full name was printed on the book. I checked the whole book, I don't think that those three interns' full names were printed anywhere at all, although their full names were mentioned in those stories. I am not even sure if those names were their real names. Robert Marion's picture was the only one printed in this book.
So it seems to me, those three interns spent their time and energy recording their own stories, and in the end, their supervisor took the full credit. And he probably got paid for the book as well. Does that sound fair to you? They can't even claim the credit.
I have read two other books written by two doctors. This one seems a little more real, because they talked about things which those two doctors didn't talk about, such as how lab technicians sometimes intentionally delay or not do the lab works which they are required, etc.
Intern Blues Oustanding book! Action-packed! Gives one an enormous appreciation for all that interns must endure to become doctors. Each of the three interns profiled in the book provides a unique look at what their internship year was like in an extremely diverse environment at a pediatric training program in the Bronx, NY. Read it twice!
Marion is my favorite !! Another book by Marion that is an easy read and really tells the whole story behind becoming a doctor. There are several interns that tell their story through internship. Great book if you are interested in the medical field.
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